Windlass attachment.



No. 857,326. i PATENT-ED JUNE-18; 1907.

. E. R.'BUGKWALTER. Y

WINDLASS ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED JUNBIO. 1905,

1 W Hmong p ELLIOTT ROY BUCKWALTER, OF LAUREN S, IOW A.

WINDLASS ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 18,1907.

Application filed June 10, 1905. Serial No. 264,690.

To aZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ELLIOTT ROY BUcK- WALTER, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Laurens, in the county of Pocahontas, State of Iowa,have invented certain new and.

useful Improvements in Windlass Attachment-s and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same.

This invention relates to windlasses for vehicles.

One object of the invention is to provide the portable or wheeledsupport of a threshing machine with a Windlass for the carrying of achain, rope or other cable for use in the event that the engine ormachine becomes stalled in the roadway. 1

Another object of the invention resides in the provision of anexceedingly simple, inexpensive, durable and eflicient Windlass fordetachable association with a traction engine for the purpose named.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in thecombination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fullydescribed, shown in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointedout in the appended claims, it being understood that changes in theform, proportion, size and minor details may be made, within the scopeof the claims, without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any ofthe advantages of the invention.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a top plan view of the front portion of awheeled support for a threshing machine illustrating my inventionattached. thereto. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of the U-shapedframe and the Windlass mounted therein. Fig. 3 is a detail perspectiveview of the guide secured to the forward end of the tongue.

Referring now more particularly to the ac companying drawings, thereference character 1 designates a front axle of a wheeled support for athreshing machine having the usual tongue 2 including its reartransverse cross member 3 and side braces 4 and 5'se-' cured thereto inany suitable manner.

Secured in any suitable manner to the cross piece 3 of the tongue arethe free bifurcated ends of the legs 6 and 7 of a U-shaped metallic,wooden or other frame whose bight portion 8 rests upon the upper face ofthe tongue 2. Journaled in the legs 6 and 7 of the said U-shaped memberis a shaft 9 carrying a roller 10 upon each end of which is disposed aratchet wheel 11 and 12, there being pawls 13 and 14 pivotally securedin any suitable manner to the inner faces of the legs 6 and 7respectively for engagement with the teeth of the corresponding ratchetwheels to prevent backward movement of the latter. It will be observedthat the ends of the shaft 9 extend through the corresponding legs 6 and7 and that a crank l5is secured to one end of the shaft for rotating itand the roller 10. It will thus beunder'stood that by reason of thebight portion 8 of the U-shaped member resting upon the face of thetongue in combination with the connection of the free ends of the legs 6and 7 with the cross piece 3, the same is firmly supported in the frontof the said wheeled support.

It will now be understood that a rope, chain or other cable may be woundupon or over the roller 10 through the instrumentality of the crankhandle 15 and that the pawls 13 and 14 positively "prevent backwardmovement of the cable.

In the event that the thresher becomes stalled in the roadway, theengine (not shown) maybe removed from the machine and one end of thecable 16 for extricating the body of the machine from its stalledposition, the cable passing through a guide opening 17 in the uprightmetallic or other suitable member 18 which is secured upon the outer endof the tongue by means of a bolt or other suitable element 19 piercingthe foot 20 of the support and the tongue the free end of the rope beingsecured to the tongue 2 in any suitable manner. By reason of passing thecable 16 through the opening or eye 17 of the upright 18, the tongue isheld in alinement with the cable or the cable with the tongue, andconsequently holding both the tongue and cable in alinement with theengine.

A chain, rope or cable is very bulksome ICC and heavy to lift or carryfrom place to place;

and therefore it will be seen that my invention obviates the necessityof carrying the cable loosely from place to place in that I providemeans associatedwith the machine for carrying the cable upon which itmay be wound or from which it may be drawn for the purposes stated.

What is claimed is: c

The combination, with the axle of a portable threshing machine, and thetongue provided with a cross-bar through the interven- IIO tion of whichthe tongue is connected to the l axle, of a Ushaped frame having theends of its side bars or arms connected to the crossbar and its forwardend resting on the tongue, at Windlassjournaled in the side-bars of theframe, a, crank connected With the Windlass for operating the same,ratchet Wheels and pawls for preventing backward turn of the Windlass,and an angular plate secured on the to forward end of the tongue andprovided with a perforation in the upright part for guiding the cableand holding up the outer end of the tongue.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signature, in presence of twoWitnesses.

E. ROY BUCKWALTER.

itnesses W. J. ALLEN, D. W. BRUINS.

